The cricket ball quiz: Which non-European team uses the Dukes ball for home Test matches?

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The cricket ball has myriad stories of its own. Consider the story of Simon Ward, who grew up in the rectory at Belton, Norfolk. When his family moved out, he jokingly asked the new occupants to look out for a cricket ball he had lost 38 years ago. They found it while working on the pond. “It’s now a shrivelled husk of its former glory, not the red shiny ball I fell in love with. But it was charming to discover it,” Ward admitted.

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Did you know that cricket balls were not originally coloured, and uncoloured white balls were used? On February 19, 1819, the first time he played cricket, John Keats was hit by a white cricket ball. In the 1890s, the manufacturers experimented with blue balls for female cricketers, who might be unsettled by the blood-red colour. Even for cricket, a sport that had traditionally kept women away, this was a new low.

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The cricket ball quiz: Which non-European team uses the Dukes ball for home Test matches?

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